Friday, June 05, 2009

I, The Living Playlist

Coffeetime, June 5, 2009, Angelynn Grant

bed
Bucky Pizzarelli / Flashes - Solo 7-String Guitar, Volume 3 / Arbors Jazz / 2004

set 1
Howard Rumsey's Lighthouse All Stars / Reggie of Chester / Liberty / LA 2.27.57
Buck Clayton & Buddy Tate / Buck & Buddy / Can't We Be Friends / Prestige Swingville / 12.20.60
Ernie Henry / Lasts Chorus / Melba's Tune / Riverside / 9.15.57
Willie Lewis & his Entertainers / Swingin' for a Swiss Miss / Pathé Marconi / Paris / 10.18.36
Isham Jones & his Famous Orchestra / Not a Cloud in the Sky / Brunswick / 1930 / vocal = Eddie Stone
Paul Gayten & his Trio / Creole Gal / DeLuxe / New Orleans 1949
Helen Merrill / Helen Merrill / Born to Be Blue / EmArcy / 12.22.54

set 2
Bob Cooper / Coop!: The Music of Bob Cooper / Day Dream / Contemporary / LA 8.27.57
Kenny Burrell / Midnight Blue / Mule / Blue Note / 1.8.63
Claude Thornhill & his Orchestra / Polka Dots & Moonbeams / radio transcription / 1947
Dick Jurgens & his Orchestra / The Lady Who Couldn't Be Kissed / radio transcription / 1938 / vocal = The Three Jokers [aka Eddy Howard, Stan Noonan, Ronnie Kemper]
Alice Faye / There's a Lull in My Life / soundtrack to 20th Century Fox movie Wake Up and Live / Hollywood 1937
Charlie White & the Playboys [aka The Clovers] / Good Golly Miss Molly / Cat / 12.9.54
Ben Imon [aka William Benimon / Down in the Country / Vee Jay / Chicago 11.10.55

set 3
Eddie Bert / Like Cool / Father Time / Trans-World [Somerset] / 1955
Teddy Charles / Collaboration West / Étudiez le Cahier / Prestige / Hollywood 8.21.53
Johnny Hodges & his Orch / [Castle Rock] / Sideways / Clef [Verve ]/ 1.13.52
Mills Brothers / You Rascal, You / Decca / 1931
Erskine Hawkins & his Orch / "I", The Living "I" / Bluebird / 4.8.39 / vocal = Ida James
Danny Kaye / Danny Kaye / Turn Around / Rambler auto promo LP / Hollywood 1963

set 4
Vince Guaraldi & Bola Sete / … And Friends / Star Song / Fantasy / LA 1963
Count Basie & his Orch / On My Way & Shoutin' Again! / Together Again / Verve / 11.2, 3, 5.62
Dave Bartholomew & his Orch / Stormy Weather / King / New Orleans 1.22.52
The Wailers / The Wailing Wailers / It Hurts to Be Alone / Studio One / Jamaica mid-1960s
Charles Aznavour / His Love Songs in English / Let's Love (Si Tu M'emportes) / Reprise / LA 1965
Swan Silvertones / The Swan Silvertones / Sinking Sand / Vee Jay / 1959

last soul song
Bobby Womack / soundtrack to Across 110th Street / Quicksand / UA / LA 1972
or
Barbara Lewis / Workin' on a Groovy Thing / Love Makes the World Go 'Round / Atlantic / Chicago 1968